I guess I want a search engine that searches all the European online shops for the products I’m looking for, lets me browse and compare
Yes. This so much. I don’t want to search 100 different shops. I don’t want 100 different accounts, different accepted payment methods, different delivery methods. Something like Amazon, but not controlled by one huge corporation, would be so great.
The closest we have are price comparison sites, but once they are big enough they don’t list merchants that don’t pay them for that listing, so you often don’t find the lowest price there either.
I also want the companies to start selling their products through European online shops, instead of just Amazon.
Well in most cases, manufacturers don’t choose the vendors but the other way around. I’m sure most companies would love to be available at every single merchant existing, including European ones.
If you don’t need an item within a limited time frame, you should ask European sellers if they can get the item and sell it to you. Might not always be successful, but at the very least it helps them to know the customers’ demands better. European merchants aren’t Amazon-sized and can just store and offer every existing product so they need to know what we want.
That’s absolutely right, but ignores context. People often use months even when the exact age isn’t relevant to the other person.
If I (as someone who doesn’t have kids and don’t know anything about e.g. what behavior is appropriate at what month at all) ask a friend “how old is she now?”, I’d be fine with a “about a year and a half” or “she’s getting 1 year old next month” or whatever. I don’t need an exact month cause 1 month difference doesn’t matter to me in a casual smalltalk/conversation setting. I wouldn’t know “oh, that’s the month she might start pointing at things” anyways.
Of course I’m aware that parents are probably just used to it, so I’m not mad when someone says it in months. But I’d prefer it in years if I had the choice.
To reuse your analogy, I would say 226/40R19 to my mechanic, but to my mother I’d say I’m buying “big wheels”. Cause she doesn’t know what exactly 226/40R19 is/means, so “big wheels” conveys the information better to her.